bug#26091: Add pkg-config file for libidn2

[Marius Bakke]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On 'core-updates', software such as 'wget' and 'ffmpeg' are unable to
>> find 'gnutls', which is really due to libidn2 not having a pkg-config
>> file.
>>
>> This patch adds one.
>>
>> From 581ad41626a951b6a69e32f15f89275c7a9093e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:20:56 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: libidn2: Create 'pkg-config' file.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/libidn.scm (libidn2)[arguments]: Add phase creating 
>> libidn2.pc.
>
> If upstream libidn2 does not install libidn2.pc, then I’m rather against
> adding it.  It’s a decision for upstream to make.
>
> So it looks like the GnuTLS maintainer uses a distro that precisely
> added libidn2.pc.  I would suggest “fixing” gnutls.pc by not requiring
> libidn2.
>
> WDYT?

Apparently upstream added a "libidn2.pc" recently, so this would only be
a temporary workaround until 0.17 is released:

https://gitlab.com/jas/libidn2/commit/84b396c528dfed9ea6e8248f0522d120c9bd6186

Would omitting "libidn2" from GnuTLS' "Requires.private" also mean that
we have to add "-llibidn2" to "Libs.private"?

I think I prefer adding a pkg-config file (especially when temporary)
to a complicated string substitution on "gnutls.pc". But no strong
opinion really.. If you think patching gnutls.pc is better, go ahead! :)

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